Oh a longtime peace activist, how sinister
Trump’s evil tweet about Martin Gugino is being widely disputed.
Byron Brown is the mayor of Buffalo.
I wish Trump would just cease to exist. Right now. Just go out like a candle. At least that particular stream of venom would stop.
I wish he would disappear retroactively, make all this go away like a bad dream…
He did fall really hard from a light push…but he’s 75. He lost his balance. Does Trump think the blood coming out of his ear was a prop? What an idiot.
If the cops didn’t look bad enough, when one of them tries to help the poor guy the other cops stop him.
The cop bending over him may have been considering helping him. That’s open to interpretation and I’ve certainly read other interpretations.
I have to say, when I’m running to give aid and bending down to help someone who has fallen and is bleeding from their ear, I don’t typically tightly grip a baton with both hands. Personally, I suspect the cop was still in threat assessment mode and was quite ready to land another blow.
(also – not a light push).
Also (Skeletor @ 2) – someone could fall really hard from a light push even if not 75. If you’re off-balance and not prepared you can go down smash, because of being off-balance and unprepared.
I run what-if scenarios a lot in my head, often ones of the type “if I see a kid dashing into the path of a car or a bike” or “if I see someone fall” and so on. I guess I’m trying to plan ahead just in case. A few years ago I rounded a corner on a quiet leafy block near here to find an elderly man sitting awkwardly on the grass and an elderly woman standing over him – she asked if I could help get him to his feet. Advance planning put to use at last! (I could. With two of us it wasn’t impossible to raise him until his feet and legs could take over.)
I guess the cops…don’t. At least not cops trained the way we seem to do it, and tasked with the kinds of things we task them with.
Yes, the cops aren’t trained in basic humanity, in fact I think most of it is trained out of them. Always suspicious, always defensive, never trusting, guilty until proven innocent type of training.
My husband is not yet 75; he is only 66. A light push would knock him over, and probably hard. He has balance problems that came with age. I could go over hard with a light push, even though I am not yet 60, because I am clumsy and it doesn’t take much to knock me off my feet.
Cops shouldn’t be pushing people. There may be times that’s needed, but I suspect in most cases there are things other than pushing that could get the job done.
twiliter:
There’s apparently some temporal correlation between a group’s being portrayed as bad actors and subsequent bad behavior. One explanatory hypothesis is that it leads to a sort of siege mentality. When two groups with that mindset converge, bad things happen, as the intensity of each group’s defensiveness increases every time the other lashes out.
It’s how societies slide into fascism. There’s a threat to the body politic, and a government response. The response exacerbates the problem or leads to new problems, so the situation gets worse. And that leads to a more extreme government response. And that makes the situation worse. And that leads to a more extreme government response. And that makes the situation worse. And that leads to a more extreme government response. And that makes the situation worse. …
And before you know it, we’re all wearing fashion accessories to demonstrate our political allegiance.
I don’t understand. If you’re pushed gently, gravity takes it easy on you, and allows you to float to the ground like a feather? What nonsense. Everyone knows gravity gets stronger from your late teens / early twenties onwards, and falling over gets more painful with ever decade that goes by.
‘Scanning?’ With what?
Magic.